Rome Quotes

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in h...

The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in h...

More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to b...

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educa...

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history...

All roads lead to Rome but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called ...

Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities we...

What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I...

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men wh...

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of...

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors ...

Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians an...

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome...

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all m...

[H]e could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, ...

This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—wo...

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...

Rome has been called the "Sacred City": - might not our Oxford be called so too? There is an air abo...

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it...

My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as ...

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of h...

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...

The grandeur that was Rome.

Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Sym...

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far m...

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

London? Paris? Berlin? Zurich? Maybe Brussels, center of the young union? They all strive to outdo o...